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- Title
Elderly in Truncated Social Network: An Agonized Living Status Towards Counting the Days of Death.
- Authors
Adhikari, Harasankar
- Abstract
The present paper presents the living status of elderly population of urban housing of Kolkata in a truncated social network after their retirement from their jobs. These elderly persons were the 1st generation in the urban area for their employment and they had to root out their kins, friendship and neighbourhood network in their native place. But after their retirement from their jobs they were alone even when they were living with their immediate family members. 50 elderly people of such setting were studied through informal interview, group interaction and participants observation. It was found that their living status was enough to count their last day of life. There was no such engagement for them in fruitful purpose where their experiences and skill could be respectfully dignified.
- Publication
Indian Journal of Gerontology, 2013, Vol 27, Issue 3, p530
- ISSN
0971-4189
- Publication type
Academic Journal